Reading XML In Form Of Key-Value Pair

[Tanzy Akhtar]

Hi,

I have the following XML file--

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
<company>
	<employee>
		<firstname>Tom</firstname>
		<lastname>Cruise</lastname>
	</employee>
	<employee>
		<firstname>Paul</firstname>
		<lastname>Enderson</lastname>
	</employee>
	<employee>
		<firstname>George</firstname>
		<lastname>Bush</lastname>
	</employee>
</company>
 

I need to read every first name and last name. The one way is to achieve this to read the xml node
by node. But i think it will create some kind of performance problem when size of xml file will become large.
Please correct me if i am wrong.

Is there any other way to achieve it? I heared about XSL and Transformation. But never worked on this.
Is that goood to go? If yes, then how?


Thanks,
Tanzy.

[Rob Spoor]

You can try XMLEventReader or XMLStreamReader. Here's how you can get hold of them:

XMLInputFactory factory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
XMLEventReader eventReader = factory.createXMLEventReader(...);
XMLStreamReader streamReader = factory.createXMLStreamReader(...);

[Tanzy Akhtar]

Thanks Rob for giving such a nice idea.